Lloyd: (Rummaging through my sling pack) What are these? (Picks up a red gummy fish) It's squishy. (Pops it in his mouth) O.O Sooooooo goooood! Sooooo sweeeeeeet!
Me: Lloyd what are you…? Did you get into my bag? What are you eating? (Sees open bag of Swedish Fish) OMG!! Lloyd had a cherry overload!! Hahaha!
Lloyd: (eyes close as he savors candy) So good! Must have more! ( Finally opens eyes) Why do you have rings under your eyes? Did you get in a fight?
Me: (eye twitch) The rings are from my goggles you idiot!
Lloyd: Ohhhhh! (Grabs another fish) What are these? I want more!
Me: Uhhhh, they're called Swedish Fish. It's a candy.
Lloyd: Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!
Me: Not until you say the disclaimer.
Lloyd: (sigh) Fine, Jen Rem owns nothing. Only Tiamatt, the sword, a bag of delicious candy fish!
Not wanting to waste time summoning or trying to make it in time by walking back to Palmacosta, I simplified our problem by teleporting us just outside the city.
"This woman refused to give us supplies. Therefore she is to be executed."
"Mom!" Chocolat ran up to the Desians. "Let her go!" She yelled.
"Do you want to be next woman?" The Desian growled.
"We've gotta do something!" Lloyd yelled as we witnessed the event.
"We can't risk this city becoming another Iselia." Raine warned.
"Palmacosta has a militia and Dorr. Things should be different. Besides, we can't just witness innocent people being hurt and not do anything!" I shouted, drawing the Oblivion Blade.
Then the Desian Grand Cardinal, Magnius appeared. A small boy glared at the desian before hurling a rock. Pissed, Magnius turned towards the boy, ready to tear him to shreds until he received a direct hit from Lloyd's Demon Fang.
"Argh! What the? Attack them!" Magnius yelled. The three mages did their weird dance and shot fireballs at us.
"Force Field!" Genis cried as he blocked the attack. "Amateurs." He smirked as he walked back to the rear of our little group.
"Enough of this crap!" Magnius waved his arm, signaling a subordinate to open the door beneath Cacao's feet. Colette flung out her chakram, cutting the rope that hung around the woman's neck.
"What are you doing? Do you want this city to become another Iselia?" Raine snapped.
"It's like Tia said, if we can't even save the people in front of us then what's the purpose? Besides, it won't if we stop the Desians." Lloyd replied, glaring at Magnius. "We'll destroy them all. THE ENTIRE RANCH!"
"Yes, the desians must pay for all the pain they have caused." I growled, pupils once again becoming slits. Magnius gave an odd look at the change of my eyes before ordering an attack, and running away
The desians rushed at us, weapons ready. Lloyd drew his other sword as the others readied their own weapons. One desian decided to face me one on one. He cracked the whip at me but it never hit. The tip of the leather whip was floating, less then an inch from to palm of my out stretched hand.
"What the hell? How did you do that?" the Desian snarled. I flicked my wrist, sending the whip flying his hand to the ground. Now disarmed, the desian looked ready to piss himself and backed slowly away.
"Stop." I said calmly, a faint glow surrounding the desian as he froze, unable to move an inch. "You tell Magnius that if he wants to mess with humans then he should do it himself, and not his lackeys!" I growled. The desian nodded slowly before disappearing as I teleported him back to the ranch.
"Thank you for saving my mom!" Chocolat said cheerfully, in the shop not to long after the battle. " I don't know what I would do if I lost mom as well."
"It was no problem." Lloyd replied, slightly embarrassed.
"Thank you very much." Cacao thanked.
"Please, it was the least we could do." Lloyd continued to say.
"What do you mean in 'as well'?" Raine asked.
"My husband enlisted in Governor-general Dorr's army, but died after a Desian attack. Not long after that, the Desians took my mother, Marble, to one of their ranches." Cacao explained. Lloyd and Genis looked down sadly.
"Why don't you pray to the Goddess Martel?" Colette asked.
"Humph! Who could believe in a goddess who does nothing as her people suffer?" Chocolat replied coldly.
"Please just give it a try." Colette asked.
"Well…ok. I'll give it a try." Chocolat replied reluctantly.
"Well, thank you, but we must continue the world regeneration journey." I said trying to get our group back on track.
"Oh yeah! Well thank you!" Lloyd said cheerfully as we left the shop and exited the store.
Outside the city we decided to head to the ranch to stop all Desian activity in the area. By night, we had reached the House of Salvation and rested there. I stood outside, enjoying the night of Sylvarant as the others slept peacefully. I looked at the full moon and the stars, thinking of home, well Tia's home, but home nonetheless.
"I wish I had the Ragnorok here." I sighed. I missed the dragonic shaped ship. It was ancient but was the best ship in the Sol System, or atleast I thought it was. With it, I traveled from planet to planet, finding allies to help sponsor the reopening of Garden. I couldn't help but wonder what Sylvarant's system looked like.
"Tiamatt, shouldn't you be asleep?" I turned to see Kratos stand beside me.
"I should ask you the same thing." I laughed. " If you must know why I am not asleep, it is because I sleep only when needed. During the wars I went a couple weeks without sleep. It doesn't bother me too much so I go without." I looked away sadly. "Besides, it seems that when ever I sleep I relive my most painful memories through dreams. But…"
"But what?" He looked at me.
"Well, since I met you, my nightmares have come less and less. I feel so happy when I'm around you. I feel I could do anything, even conquer the Calamity again but on my own." I confessed. His eyes softened and he took my left hand gently.
"I feel the same." Kratos said softly. "I haven't been happy for years till you came. I thank you for that." I looked back up at him and smiled as I wrapped my arms around him in a tight hug, laying my head on his shoulder. The mercenary returned the embrace as we both closed our eyes and enjoyed the moment.
Meanwhile, at the Palmacosta Ranch…"Lord Yggdrasil, do you want me to try to capture both the kid and the woman?" Magnius asked the man in white that was shown on the projector.
"Yes. We can not afford to lose the Angelus Project and I am quite curious about this woman you mentioned. Are you positive that her eyes changed completely?" The mysterious figure named Yggdrasil said.
"Positive. Her pupils went from round to slits. I'm sure that she is not human or half-elven." Magnius replied.
"Hmm… Capture her. We will see what exactly she is. If you fail we can always have Kratos do it for us." With that, the man disappeared.
"Capture her? If what the survivor from Palmacosta said is true then…gulp!" Magnius said nervously as he left the control room to assemble the attack on a Pilgrimage.
Lloyd: what the hell?
Me: what?
Lloyd: the bag of fish is empty!
Me: (anime style embaressment drop) that's it?
Lloyd: What do you mean 'that's it'? the bag is empty!
Me: Ummm…. Anyways, thanks for reading the story. I just wanna say that if you are going to read, plz review! Oh and I'm making a oneshot called Karoke Night: Symphonia Style. Me and my boyfriend came up with a list of songs that we thought the ToS cast should sing. If you have any ideas, please leave comments, ok?
Lloyd: Really? Karoke? What am I singing?
Me: I can't tell you! I must finish typing it first. Anyways R and R!